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This page is for Non-Homunculi allies of the Homunculi Fullmetal Alchemist manga series and its anime adaptation Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. Note: For the page about the characters from the 2003 anime, see here.

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Affiliates

Solf J. Kimblee

Solf J. Kimblee

Voiced by: Hiroyuki Yoshino (JP), Eric Vale (EN)^{Other Languages}Víctor Díaz (Latin America), Nestor Chiesse (BR), Paolo Sesana (IT)

Affiliation: Amestris Military (formerly)/Homunculi
Rank: Major (formerly)
Specialty: Explosive Alchemy / Photographic Memory

"The one thing worse than death is to avert your eyes from it! Look straight at the people you kill, don't take your eyes off them for a second, and don't ever forget them, because I promise that they won't forget you."

The Crimson Alchemist, a former State Alchemist who participated in the Ishval war. Kimblee is a sociopath and a sadist. His alchemical specialty is transmuting things into explosives.

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• Adaptational Nice Guy: Brotherhood leaves out an important detail of Kimblee's time in Ishval, one that paints his seemingly humanizing interactions with Winry in a much more sinister light. A general who was angered by the Rockbells treating injured Ishvalans ordered Kimblee to kill them and Make It Look Like an Accident. Despite his admiration for the Rockbells' dedication, Kimblee accepted the order and would have killed them if Scar hadn't done so first.
• Affably Evil: A very, very sinister example. He is a thoroughly demented and vicious man, but sincerely polite and pleasant in conversation, honest and straightforward in his intent and bears no ill will to his victims and enemies. Despite or perhaps because of his radical philosophies, he deeply respects people who demonstrate integrity and conviction, and holds deep contempt for hypocrites and cowards.
• Agent Peacock: Compared to many of the hyper-masculine muscle-bound soldiers, Kimblee is small, thin, neat, polite, and fixated on art and beauty (even if he has a very unconventional idea of it.) He's also one of the most powerful, competent and feared of state alchemists.
• The Anti-Nihilist: He may be nihilistic, but he finds this more liberating than anything. Rather than berate those around them for holding beliefs and dreams in a meaningless world, he actually applauds them. In fact, his Berserk Button is anyone betraying their own code, dream or duty out of convenience or cowardice. He only has respect for people with strong convictions, even if they oppose his own, and nothing but contempt for any who betray their own convictions, even if they're on the same side.
• Arch-Enemy: To Scar. Ironically, he is severely wounded by the chimera Heinkel and absorbed by Pride, instead of Scar getting to contribute to his demise.
• Asshole Victim: As charming and courageous as he is, Kimblee is still a mass-murdering lunatic who took part in genocide, killed Scar's family, and is complacent in a plan to sell out humanity. No tears should be shed when Heinkel rips his throat and Pride chews him up while mocking his helplessness.
• Ax-Crazy: A subdued version. He's classy, intelligent and philosophical, but without a doubt psychotic. That said, he really loves blowing stuff up.
• Badass Bookworm: He's a State Alchemist. It comes with the territory. He gets to show it off while chasing Scar, easily deducing Scar's location and then managing to barely survive a fight with him despite being years out of combat practice.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: A dangerous man who looks pretty dapper in a white suit. It adds to his creepiness.
• Badass Longcoat: He wears a long white coat once released from prison.
• Bad Powers, Bad People: He blows people up and turns harmless objects into time bombs. It's hard to be heroic with that.
• Berserk Button: He's got two: Being looked down upon, and people betraying their own beliefs/being hypocrites. For the former, he maintains a façade of good-natured politeness, even when killing people by the hundreds, but during his hunt for Scar, this façade melts for the first time when Scar, standing atop a building, comments on how he and Kimblee (looking up at him from the ground) were now in the exact opposite positions of when they first met. An enraged Kimblee warns him to watch his mouth, and prepares to use his alchemy, ignoring the fact that Scar had Winry as a "hostage". The second shows through when Kimblee looks kind of pissed when Pride tries to consume Edward, essentially ditching his ego and pride as a homunculus by taking a "lesser being". Amused, Kimblee was not. The Berserk Button was so strong that despite being a consumed soul inside Pride, one of thousands of screaming ones, he manages to over power and cripple Pride for abandoning his principles and... pride.
• Birds of a Feather: He's the only human who Pride and Envy have taken to, which says a lot about his (lack of) morality.
• Blood Knight: Based on what we see of Ishval through flashbacks, and the way others react to him, the only person who could probably rival his kill count is Roy. Kimblee might have even made it just as far as Mustang in the military with his, how shall we put it, impressive career in that 'conflict' had he not started blowing up people on his own side. Too bad he decided he wanted to keep that Philosopher's Stone they gave him to test out...
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: Kimblee takes the phrase "you do you" to a sociopathic extreme. He values holding true to one's personal moral code or chosen role, regardless of an ideal's conventional morality or of any contradictions between value sets. In turn, he respects those with these strong convictions and has no respect for both hypocrites and people who abandon their ideals for convenience.
• Break the Haughty:
  • Not as large-scale as what happens to Father or Pride, but still a rather disturbing fate. His face as he realizes Pride is going to devour him says it all. However, he finds it altogether pleasant to be a soul surrounded by thousands of screaming suffering souls inside Pride, which would drive any other to madness and is fully aware when he witnesses Pride abandon their principles.
  • Played for Laughs in the 4koma comic theater. Kimblee was left catatonic after encountering Garfiel.
• Breaking Speech: He gives three of them during the Ishval campaign, the biggest being the one to Hawkeye and Mustang, explaining how they knew the odds of killing someone when they put on the uniform, and that the only way they could honor those they killed was to remember them, since their victims would never forget what they did. He also gives one to Ed during their battle, Alphonse during their battle, and attempts to deliver them to Scar and Major Miles.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: An inversion. Kimblee's policy in life is to never forget the faces of those he kills as a form of professional pride, and he proves that he means this literally. When Scar asks if Kimblee remembers him, not only does Kimblee say he does, he also perfectly recites the district in the city where he encountered him, notes that one of the Ishvalans bore a family resemblance to Scar, and remembers the exact placement and severity of the wound that took the life of Scar's brother.
• Card-Carrying Villain: He makes no excuses and feels no remorse for the copious amount of slaughter and destruction he's gleefully wrought over the years, and he completely embraces his actions and urges with honesty and pride. In fact, taking full responsibility for every life he's deliberately extinguished is an integral tenet of his bizarre personal philosophy.
• Chekhov's Gunman:
  • In the manga, he is alluded to, mentioned offhand, and shown in blurry panels for a couple years worth of chapters before he finally begins to play an important role in the story.
  • In Brotherhood he makes a handful of appearances in early episodes, including the first episode, and appears in some flashbacks.
• Colonel Kilgore: Kimblee got a real kick out of his time at the front, and was disappointed when the war came to a close. Given his Social Darwinist beliefs, this isn't surprising.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Gets his throat torn open by Heinkel, and left to bleed out while paralyzed. Then Pride walks over and proceeds to mock how ironically weak and lowly he was in the end, before slowly consuming him with his shadows and absorbing his soul for his Philosopher's Stone.
• The Dead Have Names: A variant. While learning the names of his victims would be implausible, Kimblee makes a point of remembering all of their faces in his professional capacity as a soldier.
• Deal with the Devil: Heavily implied during the scene in which he asks Ed to help him find Scar and Dr. Marcoh and create another Philosopher's Stone where they are. He tells Ed that he "staked the very essence of [his] being" to see how the homunculi's games would play out.
• Death by Irony: Kimblee, a firm believer in "survival of the fittest" who wants to see whether humans or homunculi are superior, is killed in two bites: one to the throat from Heinkel, whose chimera features come from a famous apex predator, and one from Pride, the first and arguably most powerful homunculus, who had been his most frequent ally up to that point. Also inverted in that he inflicts this upon Pride as his consciousness fails to dilute or break within the mass of screaming souls inside the humunculis, which instead delights him and allows him to cripple Pride when he abandons his principles later on.
• Determinator: Say what you want about Kimblee, but he refuses to give up. Even after being killed, then consumed by Pride, and his soul sent into a sea of screaming suffering souls where one loses their sense of self and individuality. His sheer force of will (and sheer sadistic nature, where he finds the screaming souls to be delightful) allows him to maintain his individuality and help Ed take Pride down.
• Devour the Dragon: After being mortally wounded by Heinkel, Pride decides to eat him to recharge some of the power in his Philosopher Stone which he would have lost fighting Alphonse.
• Dressed to Kill: Kimblee is a Badass in a Nice Suit who gets to show off how much he enjoys blowing things (and people) up.
• The Dog Bites Back:
  • A victim of this trope via Heinkel.
  • On the other end of this trope, Kimblee gets the last laugh on Pride, the Homunculus who devoured him.
• Dragon with an Agenda: Downplayed. He never tries to betray the Homunculi, but he says the only reason he chose their side is because they will let him do what he want, namely killing people.
• Establishing Character Moment: While he does have a few moments in flashbacks, his first appearance in the present has him seemingly plant a bomb on his prison warden...only to reveal it's just a toy, and suggests the warden might give it to his kid. While this might come across as just a sick joke to non-fans, for those who watched the Fullmetal Alchemist (2003), it's an indication that this Kimblee is a little different from 2003 Kimblee, who was a Misanthrope Supreme who definitely 1) would have blown up that warden, and 2) would not have known enough about the warden to know he had a kid.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • Kimblee's a complete lunatic, yes, but his unique code of conduct means that he despises hypocrites. When Pride declares his intent to possess Ed's body to save his own life mere minutes after declaring his hatred of humanity, Kimblee helps Ed take him down, unable to tolerate Pride's cowardice and hypocrisy:
    Kimblee: You try to take a lesser being you despised as your container, just to escape your own predicament. You... are hideous.
  • He's also offended when Ed mistook him for a pedophile after he complimented Winry.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Subverted. Kimblee lives to cause mayhem and bloodshed, but when Pride cries out that he's going to be killed, Kimblee's soul scolds "You do not understand Edward Elric!" Though he doesn't exactly understand the desire to be good — expressing confusion towards soldiers who lament killing — as much as he does people who adhere to a conviction of goodness in spite of all obstacles.
• Evil Counterpart:
  • Towards Scar, in the sense that both of them specialize in alchemy based around destruction, both were involved in the Ishval Civil War (Kimblee as one of the soldiers who took part in the genocide, Scar as one of its victims), and both invoke Light Is Not Good. This was perhaps shown at its best when Scar pointed out how their situations were reversed from what happened with Ishval, with Scar having abandoned his path of vengeance while Kimblee's obsession with Scar never waned.
  • You can throw Roy in that mix too and make it a three way thing: same kind of alchemy, same war, etc, with Scar as a victim, Roy as a victimizer with regrets and Kimblee as a victimizer who thoroughly enjoyed himself.
• Evil Genius: He's highly intelligent and has of a philosophic side.
• Expy: Arakawa has stated he was based on Alex from Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange. To a reader who's familiar with both works, one can definitely see the resemblance...
• Fake Defector: He's ordered to cause bloodshed at Briggs to carve the final crest of blood. But even with Central forces assigned there, the men of Briggs are impossible to subvert. So Kimblee pretends to go over to Drachma, enticing them to launch an enormous assault on the fort. The Briggs forces wipe them out, fulfilling the requirement of violent death.
• False Reassurance: Towards Winry on the subject of her parents' deaths. He might be a crazed and sadistic mad bomber, but he isn't a flat-out dishonest person.
• Fedora of Asskicking: Wears a sleek white fedora, and is one of the most powerful alchemists in the series.
• Go Out with a Smile: Seconds before Pride is destroyed, and absorbed Kimblee simply walks away into a herd of souls, while doffing his hat and smirking at Pride.
• Having a Blast: Causes anything — from buildings to the air around him — to become unstable, resulting in giant explosions.
• He Cleans Up Nicely: He debuts as an unkempt prisoner, but once freed he starts wearing a stylish suit.
• Hero Killer: Came reeeeeally close to making this literal with Ed, and is feared by everyone who knows his reputation from Ishval. He lives up to it.
• The Heavy: Father has him freed from prison after Lust's death so he can replace her as this, since none of the remaining Homunculi are quite up to the task ^note  the others are either incapable of interacting with normal people (Gluttony and Sloth), have other assignments (Wrath, Pride, and Sloth), or are too stupid or impulsive (Envy, Gluttony, and Sloth) .
• Hidden Depths: He is, without question, a crazed Blood Knight Mad Bomber. He is also intelligent, respects the Rockbells for their tenacity even when assigned to kill some of them, and generally demonstrates a certain Pet the Dog quality... often before, or even combined with, an even bigger Kick the Dog moment.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: The Philosopher's Stone he drops during his battle with Edward is picked up by one of the chimeras he abandoned for dead and delivered to Alphonse Elric, who uses it in their final battle with Kimblee, and with it eventually defeats him.
• Humiliation Conga: Of a pride-crushing type. Upon arriving in Briggs, Kimblee receives near-fatal injuries from battling Scar and ends up needing to escape the fight. While helpless in the hospital, he gets menaced by the Ishvalan Major Miles. Later, he encounters Scar yet again and fails to kill or even capture him, even though Kimblee is ordered by the Homunculi to kill Scar. While he is destroying the surroundings in an ineffective attempt to attack Scar, Scar remarks how this meeting is opposite from their first meeting, when it was Kimblee looking down upon Scar. Later, Heinkel fatally wounds Kimblee and Pride looks on, remarking how weak humanity is while Kimblee is immobile and unable to even speak, let alone resist Pride's consuming of his body.
• I Die Free: An unusual example in that he was absorbed by Pride but retained his sense of self inside the sea of souls.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: He's impaled during his first fight with Scar.
• Jerkass Has a Point: As brutal as it was, he was right to scold Roy and Riza for their reluctance to kill people. Why did they join the military if they weren't prepared for that possibility?
• Just Following Orders: He follows the orders to commit the Ishvalan genocide without a second thought and he is disappointed when he sees others fail to do the same. Kimblee sees it as a soldier's job to follow orders, no matter what they may be.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: Just as Scar was about to kill him, Kimblee breaks the rail between them so the train would continue without Scar riding, allowing him to get treatment. Although, he voiced his obvious displeasure before doing so.
• Lack of Empathy: Solf J. Kimblee seems to have been written as a serious look at real-life sociopathy. He seems to be aware of his differing mentality from others and therefore goes to great lengths to disguise it, but at the end of the day he's still an amoral guy who honestly doesn't believe that there's any moral difference between slaughtering people as a soldier and saving them as a doctor; to him both are just doing their job (which, if they do well, he applauds equally). Essentially, Kimblee defines his bizarre twisted code of morality based on how much a person follows through on their beliefs or occupation; his psychopathy is too extreme for society's rules to matter to him. While he can demonstrate a certain amount of respect for another person, it's always in a very detached way, and he's completely incapable of feeling genuine empathy. There's a reason both Pride and Envy like him.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Scar assaults Kimblee with a pipe, wounding him near-fatally in the same place where Scar's brother was wounded because of Kimblee's attack.
• Last-Name Basis: Everyone calls him 'Kimblee.' It's wholly forgivable if you didn't even know 'Solf' was his first name, since the only time you'd have been likely to hear it was when another character referred to him as 'Solf J. Kimblee.'
• Light Is Not Good: Kimblee mostly wears a white suit, and the alchemical circles tattooed into his hands involve the sun and moon, both symbols of light. To say nothing of how he gives the impression of being a friendly and charismatic man. This probably makes the moment he is eaten by Pride, a shadow based homunculus quite significant. And in turn, Kimblee interfering with Pride long enough for Ed to defeat the latter could be considered as the light pushing back the darkness long enough to ensure its defeat.
• Loves the Sound of Screaming: Expresses this sentiment in an Ishval flashback. He seems to take it as the sign of a job well-done. It's also why he didn't get subsumed by the screaming souls in Pride's Philosopher's Stone.
• Mad Artist: Likes to make things explode in a manner he considers "beautiful" and even criqued his own explosions in the manga while he was murdering Ishvalans.
• Mad Bomber: A minor character even refers to him as a mad bomber at one point.
• Man of Wealth and Taste: He may not be a great guy, but damn is he stylish.
• Mask of Sanity: Heavily implied to have feigned sanity to enter the military, and he manages to fool some characters like Winry into believing he's kind and sane. Only in the action do others realize how insane he is.
• Moral Sociopathy: A very blue and orange version. For all his sadism and disregard for human lives, he does have some honor — largely based on honesty and duty — and abides seriously by it and respects whoever fills these values; indeed, by the end, his own existence is expendable, and he prefers to distract Pride and subsequently have his own soul vanish than having to "live" inside of a hypocritical homunculus.
• My Country, Right or Wrong: He claims this, but seems to view it as an excuse for his sadism more than anything.
• Mysterious Middle Initial: Whatever the 'J' stands for, we never find out.
• Noble Demon: An unusual example. He's far from "good", but Kimblee operates completely within his own set of morals, twisted though they may be. He takes his personal ideals so seriously that he won't hesitate to help his enemies or betray his superiors if doing otherwise would compromise his personal code of honor.
• Not in This for Your Revolution: Pretty much what he tells Isaac in the first episode of Brotherhood when Isaac tries to recruit Kimblee's help in his own subversion of the government. Kimblee makes it very clear that he did not murder his superiors to rebel against the military for Ishval. Kimblee actually enjoyed his time in Ishval, and killed his superiors merely because "he could."
• Person of Mass Destruction: He ends the whole Ishvalan War by himself with a Philosopher's Stone. Much later, he does this to the whole Drachman Army WITHOUT alchemy but through political deception alone!
• Pet the Dog:
  • His aforementioned admiration of the Rockbell family for their devotion to duty seems real and he appears to have a soft spot in his heart for Winry. This particular dog petting doesn't earn him many points, though, since he ignores that Winry is in danger once Scar triggers his rage.
  • He commends Armstrong for sticking to his beliefs and because of it chooses to save him from court martial... by blowing up Ishavalan survivors that Alex had saved in front of his eyes (the policy is to kill all Ishvalans). He can Kick the Dog and Pet the Dog all at once.
• The Philosopher: Mixed with Sadist. Kimblee tends to wax poetic about life and alchemy, but in a way that's reminiscent of a Serial Killer.
• Photographic Memory: As Scar points out after meeting him for the second time, Kimblee's memory is frighteningly accurate.
• Power Tattoo: Has the transmuation circles needed for his trademark explosions tattooed on his palms.
• Psycho for Hire: Does the things he does for his own reasons, (whatever those are) but getting to murder folks along the way is a nice bonus.
• Redemption Equals Death: Downplayed Kimblee's last act is coming in to save Edward when Pride is just about to beat him. Even though it wasn't done out of care for Edward there is a clear heroic tint to it with him respecting Ed's adherence to his ideals. Notably one of the final group shots◊, featuring all the heroic characters fist bumping has Kimblee in it, something that surprises Lieutenant Ross.
• Rightly Self-Righteous: A very dark, sociopathic and twisted version. He absolutely hates hypocrites and often praises enemies who stick to their convictions to the bitter end, even as he kills them. He has no problem killing civilians and innocents if ordered, and takes personal pride in doing a good job at it. Those who try to argue morality with him often gets shut down with a Breaking Speech against which they don't have a good response to, sometimes bloodily. Ultimately, this mindset is also what makes him decide that humans, not Homunculi, are worthy of survival, and screws Pride over for being such a hypocrite.
• Sadist: Basically an Ax-Crazy spree killer somebody handed a uniform.
• Scarily Competent Tracker: The main reason why Father has him released from prison is due to his terrifying skills and instincts as a master tracker, needing his help in hunting down Scar and Marcoh. No matter what evasion tactics Scar employs, Kimblee is almost always one step behind him.
• Shadow Archetype: Towards Ed. Both are famed alchemists, but Ed sees himself as the champion of the people who wants to help others while Kimblee is an unapologetic Social Darwinist who is admittedly self-centered.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: His suit and hat combo is pretty nice.
• Slasher Smile: Very frequently... particularly when trolling others, killing people, or about to blow something sky-high.
• Social Darwinist: Definitely believes this under the ethos "the strongest party wins in the end" and why he doesn't take that much part in the conflict. However, he does hold his standards in regards.
• The Sociopath: A high-functioning and very self-aware psychopath with a decidedly unusual worldview.
• Sociopathic Soldier: Type II, with flashes of Type I.
• Solar and Lunar: Kimblee has a transmutation circle tattooed on both of his palms, the right represents the sun and the left represents the moon. The reason he claps his hands to transmute is that slamming opposites together like that causes an explosive reaction.
• Spanner in the Works: Managed to screw over Pride, even in the afterlife.
• Spell My Name With An S: Solf/Zolf, J./Jay, Kimblee/Kimbley/Kimbly/Kimberly/Kimberley. Also, while it doesn't have to do with actual spelling, the translation of his State Alchemist title is a subject of debate. The word guren in Japanese means "crimson", but the kanji used to make up the word in his title means "red lotus". It can be inferred that "red lotus" is his truest title, however, due to the flower being a symbol of fiery explosions much like the ones he specializes in creating. Noting that crimson simply refers to a particular shade of dark red, some Take a Third Option and go with "crimson lotus".
• Stepford Smiler: Despite being totally Ax-Crazy Kimblee is remarkably calm and pleasant most of them time always with a bemused smile on his face. It takes imminent death to get him to change that expression.
• Stomach of Holding: Has kept a Philosopher's Stone or two in his stomach at times, which he can regurgitate.
• Straw Nihilist: He holds absolutely no value in human life or his own, sans dedication to ideals or concepts like honor, professionalism, or duty. He's more concerned about his suit getting dirty than people being killed. As such he sees no problem killing as many people as he wants and takes joy in doing so because it fits his concept of art.
• Take a Third Option: Played with. When Al rejects a binary choice between two outcomes and say that he would rather have both, Kimblee points out that the actual negation of such a binary choice is both or neither.
• Thrill Seeker: A core part of Kimblee's character is how much he gets a kick out of causing death and destruction and how much he feels putting his life on the line is what it means to be alive. As such, he'll join anyone who lets him cause as much destruction as he wishes such as the case with the Homunculi and has no problem risking being killed afterwards if it proves exciting enough.
• Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: He's able to retain his mind inside of Pride's Philosopher Stone because he finds the screams of his fellow victims soothing. Taking advantage of this, he immobilizes Pride which allows Ed to finish him off.
• Troll: Once pranked a Mook by transforming his watch into a time bomb... which turned out to be a cuckoo clock. At least in the manga, there's a "BAM" sound effect offscreen as soon as Kimblee leaves - although it might just be the sound of the prison's doors closing.
  • It's implied in the manga, and confirmed in the anime, that he used the power of the Philosopher Stone to pull that prank, effectively meaning he sacrificed human souls for a gag.
• Villainous Breakdown: Though a suppressed one, Kimblee does not take kindly to Scar's observation of the tables having turned.
• Villainous Demotivator: Knowing that the Briggs soldiers all wish him dead, he brings four chimeras with him as Elite Mooks. All four change sides on him almost as soon as it becomes a viable option due to Kimblee abandoning them to die; one eventually causes his death.
• Villainous Fashion Sense: Flashy and maybe even gaudy, at times, but that all-white suit is at the very least a fashion statement.
• Villainous Friendship: He works well enough with Pride who banters with him after Kimblee frees him from a dome meant to contain him in, at least until Pride eats him when when he's injured. He's also surprisingly chummy with the misanthropic Envy, but then again it's not that surprising given that both are psychopathic sadists, with Kimblee even admitting that he loves their cruelty.
• Villain in a White Suit: He takes to wearing a classy white suit after his release from prison. One of the signature men in white in anime and manga.
• Villains Never Lie: Kimblee has an odd sense of honor and follows it to a T. Unlike every other villain in the series, he's honest about his motivations and doesn't sugarcoat anything. It may explain why his breaking speeches work so well.
• Villainous Rescue: Kimblee, of all people, is the one who saves Edward's ass from Pride. It's not so much he cared what happened to Edward, but more that Pride was willing to betray his own belief that homunculi were superior to humans. This pisses off Kimblee's soul enough for him to assert himself within Pride, forcing Pride into a Battle in the Center of the Mind long enough for Edward to turn Pride's own attack back on him.
• Villain Respect: Towards Ed, due to the Fullmetal Alchemist's strong personal convictions. After witnessing Ed's unwavering adherence to his Thou Shalt Not Kill rule during their fight in a mineshaft, Kimblee expresses his admiration for it... right before bombing Ed all the way down to the bottom with a nasty injury. He intervenes in the fight between Pride and Ed later on when Pride tries to possess the body of a "lesser being", and, right before Ed finishes Pride off, Kimblee gives an Ironic Echo to his fight with Ed as his last act.
• Warrior Poet: Evil version, Kimblee is a top-notch State Alchemist who has a poetic view of the world, but is also a huge sociopath.
• White Shirt of Death: When Heinkel chomps down on Kimblee's throat and his suit is promptly stained with his own blood, Pride proceeds to point out how the suit's new color fits Kimblee.
• Wicked Cultured: Look at him. Then look at his suit. Then listen to his voice.
• Worthy Opponent:
  • Even though they're on opposing sides and have completely opposite moral codes, Kimblee respects the Elric brothers, Ed in particular, for steadfastly adhering to their beliefs against killing. In Ed's final fight with Pride, Kimblee ends up siding with Ed over Pride, because the latter abandons his ideals out of his desperation.
  • Deconstructed; even though Kimblee respects Ed and Al, they are still opponents and he still tries to kill both of them, coming very close to succeeding with Ed.
• Xanatos Speed Chess: No one modifies plans on the fly quite the way that Kimblee does. It's why Father keeps him around.
• Yin-Yang Bomb: His favored attack method as his symbols stand for the opposite forces of the Sun-fire-gold and Moon-water-silver fused to create explosive energy.

"Gold-Toothed Doctor"

"Gold-Toothed Doctor"

Voiced by: Bon Ishihara (JP), Mark Stoddard (EN)^{Other Languages}Manuel Bastos (Latin America), Walter Cruz (BR)

Affiliation: Amestris Military/Homunculi
Speciality: Biological Alchemy

Not a Homunculus, but a human in cahoots with them. A mysterious alchemist working for Father, this unnamed doctor is a master of biological alchemy.

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• Asshole Victim: No one was weeping when Pride transmutates him in order to make Roy a sacrifice.
• Badass Bookworm: An old skinny man who nevertheless shows no fear when confronted by Roy, Ed, Scar, Riza, and the Chimeras, stays totally cool under fire, and manages to defeat them through careful planning and the judicious use of Elite Mooks. He's repulsive, but that earns him some badass cred.
• Body Horror: Whoever he paid to bling out his mouth must be pretty creepy indeed, but it gets a whole lot worse. After being pushed through the Gate, he ends up as a hideously deformed "ball" of flesh.
• Chekhov's Gunman: He's first seen performing the fusion of a human with a Philosopher's stone in Bradley's flashback, but becomes quite important later on.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Gets run through with one of Pride's shadows, partially absorbed for Pride to take his knowledge of Human Transmutation, and finally transmuted into a grotesque, mangled ball of bio-matter as material for Roy's forced transmutation attempt. Which, keep in mind, is still twitching and moaning.
• Death by Irony: The prideful, remorseless scientist is coldly used as a tool and an alchemic resource by Pride the homunculus, then discarded and forgotten by the plot once he has nothing else of scientific merit to offer.
• Dirty Coward: Despite acting relatively calm earlier, drawing his transmutation circle in the midst of a fight between the heroes and his Elite Mooks, the second Jerso manages to get a hold of him he loses all of his cool and begins screaming and panicking. It's downplayed however, as he's still willing to put himself in danger by working in the same room as the heroes rather than just sending his men from afar.
• Elite Mooks: Controls the failed Führer candidates and uses them as his muscle, acting as the brains to their brawn.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: He is unable to understand how Mustang could refuse to perform human transmutation and revive Hughes when the Sadistic Choice alternative is to watch Hawkeye bleed to death from having her throat slit, a wound inflicted on Goldtooth's own orders. It's because Mustang knows trying to resurrect the dead will always result in failure and severe consequences, and he wants to prove that humans can learn from their past mistakes.
• Evil Genius: A more traditional version than Lust being a scientist that runs experiments on humans for Father.
• Evil Is Not a Toy: It never occurred to the doctor that his many deals with the Homunculi might come back to haunt him, or that there was nothing stopping them from turning on him when he was no longer useful.
• Evil Old Folks: Older even than Bradley and it shows.
• Faux Affably Evil: Maintains a cheerful and even somewhat jokey demeanor while throwing his subordinates to die against the heroes and slitting Riza's throat.
• Fate Worse than Death: Implied — he's not present in the usual omakes that show the dead characters, hinting that he's still alive in that deformed "ball." Not that he didn't deserve it.
• Fish Eyes: Behind his glasses. These ones are not funny in the slightest, however, and only serve to make him look more unbalanced.
• Foil: To Kimblee. Both are sadistic, misanthropic alchemists who aid the Homunculi in destroying humanity, but while Kimblee is a man in his prime who often goes toe-to-toe with the heroes and has devastating powers, the Doctor is an elderly man who specializes in twisted experiments and isn't much of a fighter. Also, while Kimblee is at least outwardly charming and has some (very loose) scruples, the Doctor barely hides what a monster he is and has no veneer of nobility whatsoever.
• Forced Transformation: Is transformed into a bloated, hideous ball of flesh.
• For Science!: A scientific genius without an ounce of morality or decency.
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Complete with the Scary Shiny Glasses, even underground with dim lighting!
• Good Powers, Bad People: He knows medical alchemy, but is a Mad Doctor who loyally serves Father because it gives him a chance to do terrible things For Science!!.
• Hate Sink: He lacks the redeeming qualities of the Homunculi. He is the only one of their human allies who knows Father's plans to cause The End of the World as We Know It, something he doesn't seem to care about. Responsible for the creation of Wrath, he killed the first twelve failed candidates and turned the rest into mindless Elite Mooks, all of whom he treats as expendable pawns. He not only slits Riza's throat in an attempt to force a Sadistic Choice on Roy but also disgusts both Roy and Zampano with his smug belief that the failed candidates must have been grateful to him for taking them in, feeding them, educating them and giving them the meaning of existence. No tear is shed when Pride turns on him by using him as an alchemic resource, leaving him a hideous ball of flesh.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: It becomes obvious that this guy has practiced human transmutation for years while totally evading Truth (and the toll) by passing the price along. When Pride finally voids it, it's not easy to pity him. Also, by using him as the ingredient and not as the alchemist, it clearly shows that he never could have succeeded at opening the portal and coming back under his own steam: the guy could only cheat.
• Lack of Empathy: He treats everyone else around him as pawns and as things for him to experiment on. He also doesn't care if his allies seek to eradicate all of Amestris.
• Light Is Not Good: He dresses in white and is very evil.
• Mad Doctor: He's called a doctor and does even do some healing. But, you'd need brass balls like Kimblee's to take it calmly because he's so obviously a bit wrong.
• Mad Scientist: The alchemic equivalent.
• Misanthrope Supreme: Sides with the Homunculi, who seek to eradicate all of Amestris and regard his species as lower than insects.
• No Name Given: We never find out his name.
• Older Than They Look: Although disheveled and ugly, the doctor looks to be in his late 60s or early 70s, even though he created King Bradley. Given that he looked to be in his 30s or 40s when he injected Bradley with a Philosopher Stone when he was in his 20s he should be in his 80s or 90s. Averted in the manga where he looks his age.
• Riddle for the Ages: No name given, no clue where he came from, how he became the way he did or why he even works for the Homunculi. He's just... there.
• Scary Shiny Glasses: That picture up there.
• Slasher Smile: Constantly sports one.
• Smug Snake: Altogether too pleased with himself about his various bastardly actions.
• The Sociopath: He does horrible things For Science! and the Evulz without a shred of guilt, treats everyone else around him as pawns and as things for him to experiment on, has a grandiose sense of his own worth, and doesn't care if his allies seek to eradicate all of Amestris.
• Surrounded by Idiots: Outright calls the Senior Staff of Central Command unreliable for failing to get 5 sacrifices ready for the Promise Day, especially since they only went after those who took the bait.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Shou Tucker. Both are portrayed as sociopathic Hate Sinks, commit horrific experiments For Science! and have Scary Shiny Glasses. Unlike Tucker, however, the Gold-Toothed Doctor is admittedly far more competent at his job.
• Twinkle Smile: Courtesy of his gold tooth. The result is creepy as hell.
• Undying Loyalty: If anything positive can be said about him at all (and "positive" probably isn't the right word), it's that he seems to be the most genuinely loyal of Father's human minions. Whereas Kimblee just follows his own whims and the Central Command are in it for Immortality, this guy outright calls immortality a stupid prize and is helping the Homunculi for the sake of service. Even when Jerso captures him, he yells that he won't let them interfere with his master's plans. Whether he's deluded enough to think he'll be spared or he's just that much a misanthropic fanatic is unclear though.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Dies with very little (but effective) characterization after only appearing in a few scenes through the series.
• We Have Reserves: Discards his Elite Mooks like the expendable pawns they are.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: An example of the "more useful dead" variation. He was in charge of readying the five sacrifices needed for the Promised Day. When he fails to get Mustang to perform human transmutation and as such become the fifth and final sacrifice, Wrath and Pride swoop in, mortally wound the doctor, and use him as the raw material in a transmutation that they force upon Mustang.

Raven

Raven

Voiced by: Katsuhisa Houki (JP), Chris Ayres (EN)^{Other Languages}Alí Rondón (Latin America), Hamilton Ricardo (BR, Álamo), Élcio Romar (BR, IST), Natale Ciravolo (IT)

Affiliation: Amestris Military
Rank: Lieutenant General
Specialty: Military Tactics / Deception

A high-ranking member of Central Command, Lt. General Raven was once an honourable and capable soldier. In his old age however, he has become obsessed with the fear of death, and obtaining immortality for himself. He is a willing and enthusiastic participant in the Homunculi conspiracy's plotting, and acts as Central Command's face.

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• Ambiguously Brown: He's not of Ishvalan descent but has similarly dark skin.
• Beard of Evil: Has a small beard and is one of several evil members of Central Command.
• Blatant Lies: When ordering the Briggs soldiers to place Sloth back in the hole and close it up, he tries to pass him off as a chimera, though even someone not familiar with the Artificial Human would know there's far more to the giant than that.
• Broken Pedestal: To Mustang, who once viewed him as a superior worth looking up to.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Stabbed through the arm, slashed, and then buried alive in concrete.
• Deal with the Devil: Makes one with Father and offers one to Olivier.
• Death by Irony: He's fatally wounded by Olivier Armstrong in an act of vengeance for the soldiers she lost in Sloth's tunnel – the same soldiers who Raven viewed as acceptable losses – and dies while buried in some wet concrete at Briggs' bottom level, placing him quite literally beneath even the lowliest of Briggs soldiers.
• Dirty Old Man: What with his hitting on Olivier. A comment in the manga from a waitress at Madame Christmas' bar also reveals he was a frequent customer, and she describes him as "creepy".
• Expy: Raven, along with Central Command as a whole, bear some degree of resemblance to Keel Lorenz and SEELE, being a secretive group of government figures who collectively orchestrate and carry out numerous atrocities to enable a ritual which will allow them to ascend to a higher plane. However, there are some important distinctions between the two. For starters, SEELE's plot, while still resulting in destructive consequences, did not outright kill everyone affected, instead assimilating humanity into a collective conscious that could potentially escape. Central Command, meanwhile, is not only outright killing everyone in Amestris, but are also Unwitting Pawns to Father, who seeks to ascend to godhood and doesn't plan on sharing his power with anyone. Likewise, whereas SEELE at least was a dangerously competent threat, Raven and his compatriots are a bunch of cowardly slimeballs who are killed unceremoniously or captured and humiliated.
• Evil Old Folks: His evilness is caused by his fear of death due to his old age.
• Fallen Hero: Apparently he used to be a kind and very good leader who placed the needs of his men first. Now he's a Insane Admiral who wants immortality. Lampshaded by Olivier when she gives him a "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
  Olivier: Growing old is truly terrifying, isn't it? You would know, General: before you became so afraid of your own mortality, I'm sure long ago you had an earnest love for your country.
• Faux Affably Evil: Appears to be a jovial older man, but is really a petty, selfish lech.
• General Failure: Has become one by the time of his appearance.
• Hate Sink: He's a willing member of Father's plan to create Philosopher's Stones out of countless people, tries to abandon Olivier's men inside Sloth's tunnel, and is incredibly lecherous towards Olivier when trying to make her join the Ancient Conspiracy.
• Immortality Seeker: Willing to do anything to escape death.
• Insane Admiral: Raven is selfish, egotistical, lecherous, megalomaniacal, and more than a little stupid — and that's without getting into his involvement in an Ancient Conspiracy aimed at the destruction of Amestris. This is typical for members of Central Command who are given their positions based on their willingness to betray their country.
• It's All About Me: Motivated entirely by his own self-interest (AKA immortality).
• Karmic Death: After admitting to Olivier that "the weak will become the foundation of the strong" and that the men of Briggs' will be among them, Olivier pushes him into cement after stabbing him in the arm meaning he literally is the foundation for the strong.
  • Also invoked by Olivier, who refers to the severed arm of one of her men that Raven wrote off, apparently going out of her way to stab the same arm on Raven.
• Lust: Seems to be his big sin, both in sexual terms, and in terms of lusting after more life. Fittingly enough, this sin of his is ultimately what causes his demise; Olivier takes advantage of his sexual lust by sweet-talking him into revealing his true colors. Once he does this, she kills him.
• Meaningful Name: Ravens in folklore are often portrayed as sly, crafty, and duplicitous.
• Mortality Phobia: He is motivated to join the conspiracy out of his fear of death, especially by old age.
• The Quisling: Like the rest of Central Command, he aids Father in his plan to make a Philosopher's Stone out of the souls of everyone in Amestris in return for immortality.
• Slasher Smile: Usually pulls one of these off right before he offers someone immortality. Most pronounced in one of the Eye Catches.
• Smug Snake: Acts like he's some grand master in the plot, but really is just a pawn.
• Unwitting Pawn: He, along with the rest of Central Command, are these to Father.
• Villainous Crush: A creepy one on Olivier. She uses this to her advantage by sweet-talking him into revealing his plan and then killing him to take his seat.
• We Can Rule Together: Tries it on Major-General Armstrong. It doesn't work out very well for him.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Granted we did learn a little about him.

Mannequin Soldiers

"The Mannequin Soldiers"

Affiliation: Homunculi
Specialty: Cannibalism

Not referred to as Homunculi, but are similar in being another group of Artificial Humans. They are hideous, one-eyed, cannibalistic and hard to kill monsters created by inserting Philosopher's stones in artificial bodies. The Military Conspiracy planned to use them as an unstoppable army, but when released, things didn't exactly go as planned...

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• Achilles' Heel: As Olivier Armstrong shows, destroying their jaws leaves them unable to hurt anyone, as they depend on their jaws to attack.
• Ax-Crazy: They lunge towards humans to eat them alive in an animalistic fashion.
• Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: They eat several participants in the Government Conspiracy and prompt the troops loyal to Central to pull a Heel–Face Turn to have help fighting them off.
• Cyclops: They have one eye, which makes them look extremely unsettling.
• Elite Mooks: Much more durable and dangerous than the regular soldiers, as they manage to slaughter entire groups in very little time.
• Expy: Of Mass-Production Evas. Like their mecha counterparts, they are nigh-invincible white monstrosities unleashed as a last resort.
• From a Certain Point of View: The officer who decides to release them informs they will be loyal to their father. This almost certainly means they will only obey orders from Father, and unsurprisingly, the officer is immediately devoured by them.
• Gone Horribly Wrong: They were made so that they could be used to help Take Over the World but once released, they turned on any human who was nearby.
• Horror Hunger: They try to eat any and all people they come across. Some of them do so while calling their victims "Papa" or "Big brother".
• Hive Mind: They seem to have one to some degree, as others will react when one of them is injured and they scream in unison.
• I'm a Humanitarian: Sickeningly yes. They'll crunch down on a human with gusto. It's all they do upon their activation.
• Monkey Morality Pose: Three of them do this in one of Brotherhood's eyecatches.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Also referred to as "the Immortal Legion".
• Neck Snap: May kicks one Mannequin Soldier in the head hard enough to break its neck. Unfortunately for her, it just simply snaps it back into place.
• Night of the Living Mooks: They have the same story role as zombies, being a massive tsunami of bodies slowly advancing and eating everything in sight (though much more dangerous than the typical zombie).
• Nigh-Invulnerability: Because these things aren't human, normal attacks have no effect. Scar's usual tactic of Your Head A-Splode doesn't work and neither does firearms. Mustang's Flame Alchemy on the other hand though...
• Non-Humans Lack Attributes: Their groins and chest are flat and featureless. Makes their Full-Frontal Assault much less adult-rated. Funnily enough, in an omake of the manga, Father scolds them for not having underwear.
• Powered by a Forsaken Child: Each one of them contains a Philosopher's stone, whose souls are writhing in constant agony.
• Psychopathic Manchild: They creepily evoke children in the way they cry out in pain and to voice their hunger. Some of them actually do contain children's souls, such as one that was calling for its mommy.
• Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain: A sure way to kill them is by destroying their heads (or by burning them). Fitting, because they have some zombie-like traits.
• Tortured Monster: All of them are the souls of sacrificed humans forced into mannequins that can't die normally. When they are first awakened, they let out a scream that carries through the tunnels under Central.
  Mannequins: It hurts...
• Turned Against Their Masters: Upon their activation, they devour those that had unleashed them and proceed to attack all the military in Central.
• White and Red and Eerie All Over: This color scheme is one of many visual features that make the "Mannequin Soldiers" so unsettling: in addition to being freaky, featureless Cyclops that attack in waves like zombies, they are also chalky white with red stripes down their bodies.

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